Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:23:38 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small Message-ID: <199801142323.PAA08559@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:27:34 PST." <XFMail.980114122734.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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>On 13-Jan-98 David Greenman wrote: >>> vnodes145070 24237K 24237K 39322K 246196 0 0 16,32,256 >> >> Huh - 145070 vnodes? How much physical memory is in this machine? I >> have >> a gigabyte of RAM in wcarchive and it peaks at about 87,000. This looks >> like >> a vnode leak to me. Which version of FreeBSD is this? > >384MB or RAM. 3.0-current as of 12-Jan. > >What do I do about the vnode leak? I guess you wait until John has fixed the leak - I'm pretty sure this is one of the recent bugs that he's been working on resolving. >The way to trigger it is to cd into one LARGE directory and do >``find . | cpio -dmpv /Destination'' > > >>>Memory Totals: In Use Free Requests >>> 57971K 554K 4718664 > >I have seen the FREE go down to 38K or so. "Free" doesn't matter; ignore that. >> ...no surprise that the machine is panicing. > >Dumb Question: Which is the alert and why? "In Use" is in outer space. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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